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If they're hitting google apis, they must be paying obscene amounts of money, right?

• greglindahl 10y ago
  It's complicated. Google gives out free results, sometimes, if you show google's search ads. And some Google partners have grandfathered deals not available to new partners.
  • StartPageSearch 10y ago
    Hi greglindahl. StartPage has a contract with Google that allows us to use their official "Syndicated Web Search" feed. We pay them to get those results.
    • bogomipz 10y ago
      Startpage is recent discovery for me. I really like it. Is it possible you can share any ball park numbers, traffic, growth etc?
      • af16090 10y ago
        They have a traffic page here: https://www.startpage.com/traffic/ https://www.startpage.com/traffic/
        • bogomipz 10y ago
          I'm not sure how I missed that. Thanks.
    • omash 10y ago
      Why don't you have the same results as Google? For example some searches will return nothing in Startpage but a few results in Google. Are they intentionally limiting the quality of the feed they provide?
    • tim-- 10y ago
      What do you have in place when Google decides to cut you off from the '"Syndicated Web Search" feed'?
• OV-104 10y ago
  Also seems kind of redundant, why not just go through Google?
  • pcvarmint 10y ago
    Privacy
  • morganvachon 10y ago
    https://www.startpage.com/eng/protect-privacy.html#hmb https://www.startpage.com/eng/protect-privacy.html#hmb I've been using them for years, and switched to them full time when I gave up all things Google a few months ago. The results are better than DDG, though DDG in my opinion has a much better site design (especially under the hood; it's very clean).